The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-11-30
TRAINING DOMESTIC SERVANTS.
Il New business Developing for Women A
New iork--Thc Domestic Problem aud t.
Solution-Good Servants Needed.

NL'l IL III SuNSilllun news
New YORK, November 17.-rbere is
new business for women which is JUS,
gaining foothold in New York, II is TIM.
of teacher of domestic servants.
Sho of the kitchen has SO far ~repented
of her deficiencies or become SO far aware
of the better pay and better householn
positions to be secured by remedyine
them, that it has become an occupation
which already supports q number oil
capable women OF some executive ability
to go about from house to house, and il,
tue kitchens Of the mistresses or in the
girls house, or i'll rooms especially fitted
up for that purpose, to give practical
lessons IN cookery and other household
arts.
Girls who have not conc under thi
form OF instruction, i'll cases where they
can raise the money to pay for it, arc
beginning to go to the hotel chefs and
pick up culinary wrinkles, from them.
There Is no doubt that a certain proper.
ton Of the moro intelligent of the kitch-
en- queens have thoroughly walked up to
the FAC. that q better order Of domestic
service is called for and Will bo paid fol
If CHAINED.
/ called upon Hiss Juliet Corson, the
pioneer 81 tue cooking schools, in her
rooms ut the Continental Hotel, yester.
day, to inquire into the truth of the re-
Lolt Of n training school for tue servants
on 4 large scale to NC established in New
York undor the auspices of Secretary
Whitnoy's wife. Miss Corson is not in
good health aud has many ingenious
coEtilynnceS for carrying on her literary
woEH without Ring from her couch on
which she spends much of her time.
1T Is not true" she said, 'tthat any
definite arrangements have been made,
or That Mrs. Whitney has been in com.
mun1c1tlon with mo ut all upon the sub
lcct. LIDO not know Of anything definite
enough to be called u plan Oh foot in the
city. At the same time things arc ripe
for Just such q project, if money enough
could be raised to start it on such o scale
as 20 give it any real influence in the
city, and if the thing we're in the hands
of responsible people practical enough
to know just what to do"
"lt such q school were established" L
asked, "does your experience lead youto
believe that the right kind of girls would
go into it? Is not the position OF do
nestle servant held i'll such disrepute
that it would be hard to find tho intolli-
gent and selt-respecting girl WHO ought
to have charge OF the domestic economy
VI 4SS hiJNlCI, wiz "OillNt care 10 III uCh-
self for any such place rs n profession?"
"Ihnt trouUle would have been felt q
few years ago." Miss Corson said, ''and
has mterferred with some attempt of the
sort, but things are beginning to be
different now. Anarchy in the kitchen
has produced such Il weeping and walt
ing throughout the land that it has pen
ctratrd the ears of servant1om, and the
girls themselves know that it is TO .hu
interest Of their pocket books to do bet
tor"
"Wou;d American girls 90 into a
training school for servants?" 1 asked.
"Not many, probably. Some would
be glad Of q chance to tit themselves TO,
positions as supervising or working
housekcepcrs, places which pay better
than many things which well educated
aod intelligent womcn do"
1T would surprise you to know" Miss
Cotson went ON, chow many girls there
are who are only waiting for a chance t,
bo taught. L have come across numbers
OF thom who are ready to give their time
anu their money to learn how to perform
Their duties better, not from any prick.
ing OF conscience, but because they know
II would pay them in the end. The
constant agitation OF the subject has
'ittI iIlCb SiICCI III least,
HE domestic problem is a perplcxing
one, and there have been divers attcmnfs
IT Il solution in New York. Several at
t9mpts at systematic training Of servants
nave been made, one of the most notable
dating from 1873, when cooking schooi
n industrial training establishment
the outgrowth OF the financial panic
Which drove many women to depend on
themselves for bread ard butter-Yas
established and did good work for some
TIME. a similar institution was opened
In 1913, but fell through largely because
many OF the girls admitted were too
young 10 take positions in families. The |
industrial education association. in which
Miss Grace IL. Dodge, the school COM
sloncr, is so largely interested, has cook
ing classes, OF which Miss Alice Burns 10
principal, but the pupils are for the most
part school children, and the same is tho
,|'SG WITH the New York Cooking School
III Lafayette place. a start has been
by the board Of education toward
introducing cooking as n study in the
grammar schools, but the arrange
menu is not likely to go into practical
operation Tor some time. In point OF
TACT, tho ''lately landed" just set ashore
Castle Garden has few places open to
her IN which she could preside over the
i'Lhiiy dl8cstlon II she wished. All at
to prccipitate q domestic revolu-
ton IN the right direction, toward
efficiency IN the kitchen, in New York.
arc hindcred by that dilcttante charity
which leads women with money and
social ambition to get their names placed
upon ''boards" of all sorts, philanthropic
and semi,philanthropic, more with the
.dea OF seeing themselves in good COM
oany than with that of being any hello.
There are not far from so, 900 domestic
'eryants in and about New York. There
$ no branch of woman's industry that is
more overcrowded. The intelligence
arc full and an advertisement will
'yerrun you with dozens of applicants.
mere rs no panacea for the evils of low
ages and long hours among working !
that is more absolutely devoid Of !
ommon sense, in the city at least, than :
advice to the horde of factory girls
shop girls to enter domestic ser1ino